System and method for a software steerable web camera with multiple image subset capture
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1. A method of capturing a scene within a field of view of a wide-angle lens coupled to a camera, the method comprising:
- storing image data of the scene in an image collection array;
digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data for storage in a memory;
receiving selections of a plurality of subsets of the digitized scene image data;
performing distortion compensation on the plurality of selected subsets of the digitized scene image data to correct for distortion introduced by the wide-angle lens as a function of a relative distance within the image from an axis of the image; and
transmitting respective ones of the distortion compensated subsets of the digitized scene image data to one or more destination devices.
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Abstract
A method of capturing a scene within a field of view of a wide-angle lens coupled to a camera comprising storing image data of the scene in an image collection array, digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data for storage in a memory, receiving selections of a plurality of subsets of the digitized scene image data, and performing distortion compensation on the selected subsets of the digitized scene image data.
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1. A method of capturing a scene within a field of view of a wide-angle lens coupled to a camera, the method comprising:
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storing image data of the scene in an image collection array; digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data for storage in a memory; receiving selections of a plurality of subsets of the digitized scene image data; performing distortion compensation on the plurality of selected subsets of the digitized scene image data to correct for distortion introduced by the wide-angle lens as a function of a relative distance within the image from an axis of the image; and transmitting respective ones of the distortion compensated subsets of the digitized scene image data to one or more destination devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions to cause a computing device to perform a method, comprising:
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storing image data of a scene in an image collection array captured by a wide-angle lens; digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data and store the digitized scene image data in a memory; receiving selections of a plurality of subsets of the digitized scene image data; performing distortion compensation on the plurality of selected subsets of the digitized scene image data to correct for distortion introduced by the wide-angle lens as a function of a relative distance within the image from an axis of the image; and transmitting the plurality of selected subsets of the distortion compensated digitized scene image data to at least one destination device.
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15. An apparatus for capturing a scene within a field of view of a wide-angle lens of a camera, comprising:
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means for storing image data of the scene; means for digitizing the scene image data into digitized scene image data; means for receiving selections of a plurality of subsets of the digitized scene image data; means for performing distortion compensation on the plurality of selected subsets of the digitized scene image data to correct for distortion introduced by the wide-angle lens as a function of a relative distance within the image from an axis of the image; and means for transmitting respective ones of the distortion-compensated subsets of the digitized scene image data to one or more destination devices. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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